OVERPOPULATION: WHY IT'S HAPPENING AND THE MYTHS IDIOTS KEEP SAYING ABOUT IT.

Lately, I have been reading people who say that the reason the economy is failing is because Americans are having less children. This is true and one of the main reasons is the lousy economy where people can no longer afford to have children. Others like myself, think there are too many people already and why contribute to the problem. But the naysayers say that as there are less people to support the old, we are reaching a crisis of funds to support Medicare and Social Security. None of that is true.

First off, Medicare and Social Security and whithering because of said awful economy where people are making less and less, this adding less to tax and entitlement coffers. It also doesn't help that we are looking at ways of eliminating said programs rather than fixing them. Lifting the cap on SS will fund that program through the next century and means testing Medicare, along with common sense medical reform, would save that program too. But the Tea Party is too bent on destroying us to fix any of that.

What then religious right fails to understand is that by denying abortion and birth control rights to people, we are setting the stage for our own extinction. Eventually, there are going to be too many people on the planet, leading to resource wars, extreme poverty and, most likely, plagues that will wipe many of us out. If we don't quell the tide of humanity, nature will do it for us. As fertility rates are dropping dramatically worldwide, that may already be happening. It's also why I think we should shut down all fertility clinics as we should not be helping people get pregnant but the opposite.

The argument that we need more people to support the elderly is well intentioned by stupid. The Earth is a finite space and can only hold so many. If we keep population growth to unmanageable levels, we will kill ourselves in the act of doing so. We are already seeing the signs from an overcrowded Earth. Food, water, overcrowding are already happening so for all those people who say the population of the planet could double and we'd be alright is not paying attention to all the signs that say otherwise. This is from Prison Planet:

In America, India and China, underground water aquifers that produce the food that feeds the population is plummeting rapidly. Many aquifers will be dry by 2040, including the Ogallala Aquifer that stretches from Texas to South Dakota and provides irrigation for the breadbasket agricultural hub of America.

• The pollution produced by the current population is murdering every ecosystem imaginable. Oceans are dying, coral reefs are dying, rivers are dying and rainforests are dying. If the human population were small compared to the total carrying capacity, we shouldn’t see the natural ecosystems dying all around us.

• Soils are disappearing across the world’s agricultural centers. We are losing topsoil at a record pace around the world, and once those top soils are gone, food production yields plummet. (You can’t feed the world by growing food in sand.)

• Humanity’s voracious appetite for energy has led to the global proliferation of “Earth-killing” technologies such as nuclear power plants. The Fukushima disaster proved that demand for power has caused energy industries to risk the viability of human life across the planet in order to produce more power for humanity’s artificial cities.

• Hydrocarbons continue to drive the world economy, yet there’s very good evidence that oil supplies in the Middle East are drying up (production is falling). While the planet can produce more hydrocarbons over millions of years, it cannot double its oil supply in a few decades. Thus, the demand for oil vastly outstrips the ability of the planet to produce it.

• Look at the outrageous crowding in cities like New York and Los Angeles. The highways exist in a seemingly endless logjam, and there’s hardly a public open space left remaining anywhere in these cities, with New York’s Central Park being the rare exception. Housing shortages and housing building materials shortages (wood, concrete, steel) are all very, very real. This is why building homes has become ridiculously expensive over the last few years. China is buying concrete and steel from the USA and shipping it overseas on large sea freighters.

• The depletion of ocean fisheries is also very real. As the human population over-fishes the oceans in search of food, ocean life is experiencing an unprecedented die-off. Many species have plummeted to “red alert” levels due to over-fishing.

That sounds like a dying planet, not one doing well, doesn't it? With way too many stupid, greedy people giggling their way to the Apocalypse I see little hope for fixing any of this. Civilizations have collapsed in the past, driving people from cities beck to hunter gatherer mode and it will happen again, technology or not, if we continue to behave to such an idiotic fashion.

Water is disappearing at an astronomical rate, brought on by climate change, drought, and overpopulation everywhere. Lake Mead, which supplies cities like Las Vegas is dropping quick. Scientists give the lake a 50% chance of disappearing by 2025, meaning no water for millions. Another source of water, the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest water sources in the world is drying up. This water source supplies water to most of the Mid-west and once gone, it's gone. 800 gallons are used per minute, a volume equivalent to draining two thirds of Lake Erie since 1940. Even worse, as population grows, so does the speed of the draining. Where water levels once stood at 240 feet, it now is down to just 80 feet and dropping.

36 states face water shortages, some of which may become permanent at water loss ratios. Nevada, California and Texas may have less than 20 years of water left. Then what? I am guessing lots of dead people. It's not helping that almost half of our rivers and lakes are so polluted that you can't swim in them let alone drink the water.

And that is just this country. Around the world, it's even worse. Water use has quadrupled over the last 100 years. One third of the world will face water shortages by 2025. Water supply in China will overtake usage by 2030. 75% of Indian lakes and rivers are beyond polluted and 80% in China. Every eight seconds a child dies somewhere on Earth for drinking tainted water. As more people are born, food will become just as scarce as there won't be enough water to grow crops. Saudi Arabia has given up growing wheat meaning they will import 100% of that crop by 2016.

All of this spells doom for the human race, while the Catholic Church and the religious right continue to back policies that will kill us all. Feel how you may about abortion, but anything keeping the population down at this point is a far greater necessity than arguing about whether a fetus is a person or not (it isn't). And birth control is an absolute need for a world rapidly spinning out of control.

I am not optimistic about our future as most people are too stupid, greedy or both to see the forest for the trees. We need population controls and stat. The other result is the end of our civilization and the near extinction of mankind. Your choice.